A Psychological Self-Description for People who Suffer from Fear of Not Being Saved

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People, who are all sinners (Romans 3:9-20), may or may not know the Biblical teaching that, if they wish to be saved by God's wrath, which they deserve for their sins, or crimes (1 John 3:4), against Him, they must repent, which means to change their minds in such a way where they switch their trust from whatever they have it placed on and onto Christ alone (Matthew 4:17, 21:28-32; John 3:14-16, 14:6). By God's grace alone through faith alone in His Son alone, they will be saved, and not by any works that they do (Ephesians 2:8-9). They are saved to do good works to glorify God, but they do not do good works to be saved by God (Ephesians 2:8-10). Whether they know this or not (but you know it now, reader, given the Biblical references cited here), this is the way to be saved by Christ.

But there are some people who know the way of salvation, and the fact that it is indeed the only way of salvation, and who feel a desire in their hearts to be true Christians and not false converts, who struggle with a horrible psychological hardship: they don't know how to believe in Christ, and they also don't know how to know for sure that the Lord Jesus Christ is the sole Object of their trust. They are convinced that, if they can know those two things, they will be able to experience the rest that Jesus promises to all those laboring and heavy-laden people who come to Him (Matthew 11:28-30). They are convinced that, if they can know those things, they can and will bear an abundant harvest of fruit to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ and Their mutual glory in their lives (Matthew 13:8, 23; John 15:1-8). I know this is a real experience because it is an experience I have gone through for years now and which I continue to go through! But I know God is both able and willing to help me! He made the man formerly blind from birth and the Apostle Paul know whom they believed in (John 9:35-38; 2 Timothy 1:12), and therefore that they were true Christians, and I trust Him to ensure that for me too! And this post is my attempt to help others! While I don't think I can, at this time, give an answer as to how you can know Christ is the sole Object of your faith or not, I can write this psychological self-description of what it feels like. I plan on taking this to someone well-versed in the Bible's doctrine of the heart to help me deal with this once and for all, and maybe it can help you too if it fits your experience! Take it to someone who knows the Bible's psychology (in other words, the Bible's doctrine of the human soul) and who knows how to use that knowledge to help you with this issue (but put your trust in the Lord alone)! Anyway, here goes:

Life, to me, is like a video game.

My heart is the game-controller that controls my person.

My heart's supreme faculty is its trust, which is what it puts its ultimate confidence in.

I know that, if I am to receive the gift of salvation, my heart's trust must be on only One: the Lord Jesus Christ, as He is solely revealed in the Bible.

But these are the problems: 1) I don't know how to set my trust on Christ alone, 2) I don't know how to know that I placed my trust on Christ alone, and 3) I don't know how to ensure that my trust will be PERMANENTLY on Christ alone, since the Bible clearly says that saving faith keeps trusting in Christ until the end (Colossians 1:21-23).

O Lord Jesus Christ, True Doctor of the Soul, fully heal this spiritual malady! Work in me to place my trust in You only and know that I have done so if I indeed have! Because I want to be Yours' and Yours' alone! Amen!!!